I was very happy to learn about the court decision on the constitutionality  of Wisconsin’s gay marriage ban, but not completely.

I’d be much happier if the people of Wisconsin removed this stain on our constitution themselves.

It’s my suspicion that we have this in our constitution because its proponents were more passionate in their — what’s he right word, hatred, fear? — of our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters than the rest of us had for protecting their rights.

Credit to the homophobes: They were better at getting out their voters than we were.

But shame on the rest of us for waiting to have a court do what we should have done — and still should do: ensure that all people in our state  have the same rights and opportunities as people who happen to represent a certain point of view in a certain election.